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Old 01-04-2013, 09:00   #13
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Re: The River Stink!

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Originally Posted by Judith Addison View Post
My Dad was born in 1913 at 8 Mill Street, Church, just by Express Gifts, opposite the Sports Centre. He said that Church was known in those days as the "City of the Seven Stinks"! I think that Steiner's chemical works and others discharged all their waste into the river. I seem to remember that when Hyndburn was chosen for the name of the Borough on 1st April 1974 it was rather amusing because the river was still known as the "River Stink" in those days!
Think the worst stink in Church was the Tripe curing place, when they were boiling the tripe it stunk to high heaven, you could smell it for miles
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